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Craigslist Founder Newmark: I've Never Looked At eBay's Classifieds Site
Craigslist CEO Craig Newmark (pictured, left) took the stand in the company’s court battle with eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) on Friday to deny that he ever looked at the auction site’s online classifieds unit, Kijiji, Reuters reported. Newmark sought to blunt charges that he had access to information about eBay’s...
Tags: Craigslist, eBay Inc., Business Structures, E-mail, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising, E-Commerce, Classifieds Business, Legal, David Kaplan
External links 2009-12-11
Inside Word: What Newspaper Ads Still Have Going For Them
The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies.Poster: Steve YelvingtonPosition: Digital strategist, Morris CommunicationsBlog name: Yelvington.comBackstory: Yelvington has an editorial background—he worked as the executive editor of network content at Cox Interactive and...
Tags: Advertisement, Sales Strategy, Microsoft Word, Sales, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Features, Inside Word, E-Commerce, Classifieds Business, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Joseph Tartakoff, Google Inc.
External links 2009-08-07
Alibaba Removes Classifieds Business From Yahoo China
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is facing a setback in its plans to build market share and revenue in Asia: Alibaba Group, which runs Yahoo China and is 39 percent-owned by Yahoo, is separating classified listings business Koubei.com from Yahoo China and adding it to its own retail site Taobao.com, as...
Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Alibaba, Portals, Web Technology, Internet, Advertising, E-Commerce, Classifieds Business, Companies, Yahoo, Countries, Asia, China, Patrick Smith
External links 2009-08-24
Monster.com Founder Sees A Healthy Future In Death Listings
This is a tough time for jobs sites. And, for that matter, the economy has constrained advertisers from spending on the health content market. So with that in mind, last fall, Monster.com founder and former CEO Jeff Taylor created a spinoff from his healthy living site Eons.com aimed at...
Tags: Monster, Boston.com, Site, Tributes.com, Eons, Advertising, E-Commerce, Classifieds Business, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Online News, Social Media, Companies, David Kaplan
External links 2009-08-24
Century 21 Canada Sues Rogers Communications' Real Estate Site Over 'Data Scraping'
With the bitter housing market making business tough for real estate agents, Century 21 Canada has filed a lawsuit against a new home sales search engine owned by Canadian cable and telecom giant Rogers Communications, the Financial Post reports. The site in question, Zoocasa, was launched by Rogers about...
Tags: Site, Century 21 Inc., Rogers Communications Inc., Century 21 Canada, Zoocasa, Real Estate, Sales Strategy, Business Operations, Sales, E-Commerce, Classifieds Business, Legal, Media & Publishing, Newspapers, Search, Countries, Canada, David Kaplan
External links 2009-09-08

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CanWest Global Communications F1Q08 (Qtr End 11/30/07) Earnings Call Transcript
Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Carl Bayard - Genuity Capital Markets. Carl Bayard – Genuity Capital Markets Couple of questions. First off, a question for John Maguire. I was just wondering if you have an estimate of what the clean EPS number would be if...
Tags: Advertisement, Alliance, Asset, Asset Management, Bank, Bit, Broadband Internet, Business Operations, Call Transcript, Consumer Electronics, Cost, Cost Savings, Debt, Development Tools, Digital Media, Earnings, Genuity, Global, Growth, Home Entertainment, Operational Planning, Personal Technology, Programming, Quarter, Question, RBC Capital Markets, Revenue, Security, Seeking Alpha, Series, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Strike, Synergy, Telecommunications, Term, TV, Tv & Home Theater, Video On Demand (VoD), VoD
Earnings calls 2008-01-10
EBay and Craigslist Square Off in Delaware Court
By Tom Hals and Alexandria SageGEORGETOWN, Delaware/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - EBay Inc's former chief executive, Meg Whitman, took the witness stand on Monday to make the case that free online classifieds provider Craigslist unfairly denied the giant e-commerce company a seat on its board.Whitman, who is running for governor of...
Tags: Craigslist, eBay Inc., Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Business Operations, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Meg Whitman
News items 2009-12-16
Is eBay's Real Threat Amazon or Classifieds, or Both?
Scot Wingo submits: I did this interview with Business Week about classifieds today and it got me thinking.... On this blog I've spent a good bit of time comparing eBay EBAY vs. Amazon's AMZN seller business. I definitely think when it comes to 'practicals' Amazon is taking significant share...
Tags: Internet, Scot Wingo, Amazon.com Inc., eBay Inc.
External links 2009-05-24
eBay's Kijiji Acquires German Classifieds Web Site opusforum
SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Kijiji, eBay's (Nasdaq:EBAY) international classifieds group, today announced that it has acquired opusforum (www.opusforum.org), a local classifieds Web site based in Germany. The acquisition allows Kijiji to expand its position in Germany and enables opusforum to further cultivate its business with the resources and expertise of...
Tags: eBay Inc., Web, Web site
Research articles 2005-06-30
Indy's Aussie Wing Will Trial Paid Content, Member Clubs This Year
APN News & Media, the Australasian publisher of which Ireland’s Independent News & Media owns 32.2 percent, is joining the crowd by giving thought to online income other than web ads. Announcing earnings on Friday, APN said its NZHerald.co.nz newspaper site grew January-to-June revenue 16 percent from last year,...
Tags: Revenue, APN News & Media Ltd., New Zealand, Indy, Operational Accounting, Finance, Companies, Independent News & Media, Robert Andrews
External links 2009-08-21
WEEKLY HOUSING MAGAZINE TO BE LAUNCHED IN SYDNEY BY SENSIS.
SYDNEY, Oct 7 Asia Pulse - Telstra Corp's (ASX:TLS) classifieds business Sensis today announced it would move further into the publishing world by producing a weekly housing magazine for the Sydney region. SYDNEY, Oct 7 Asia Pulse - Telstra Corp's (ASX:TLS) classifieds business Sensis today...
Research articles 2004-10-07
Corporate Profile for Electric Classifieds Inc., dated March 28, 1997
--BUSINESS WIRE--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and online services, including all of the leading Internet-based services. -0- Published Date: March 28, 1997 ...
Tags: Business Wire, Databases, HARDWARE, INTERNET, SOFTWARE, Storage
Research articles 1997-03-28
CUC's Rent Net Teams Up With Yahoo! to Expand Yahoo!'s Apartment Classifieds; Agreement Will Increase CUC's Internet Classified Presence
STAMFORD, Conn.--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 21, 1997--Rent Net (http://www.rent.net), a wholly-owned subsidiary of CUC International (NYSE:CU) and a leading Internet apartment rental guide, today announced an agreement with Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO), the world's leading Internet guide, that provides Yahoo! Classifieds users with comprehensive and up-to-date rental information on the Internet.
Tags: agreement, Internet, Yahoo! Inc.
Research articles 1997-10-21
Warner Bros. Online Selects Electric Classifieds, Inc. As Internet Services Provider for Major New "CityWeb" Service; ECI's Online Classified Advertising Capabilities Enrich "CityWeb" Service For Local Television Stations; Highly Flexible System Allows Co
SAN FRANCISCO--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 14, 1997--Warner Bros. Online, a Time Warner Entertainment Company, today announced its partnership with Electric Classifieds, Inc. ECI, the global technology provider of services and tools that deliver interactive online classified advertising.
Tags: Internet, Internet service, TV, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Research articles 1997-02-14
InteriorTrade.com Introduces InteriorFORUMS: Conference Forums, ProNetLink.com PNL-TV Network Affiliate News and Classifieds for the Global Interior Design and AEC Trades
BOSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 17, 1999-- Conference forums, live world trade news broadcasts, and classifieds for interior designers, architects and those in the AEC trades came online Monday, sponsored by InteriorTrade.com Inc. "To succeed in today's marketplace, companies must engage in new Internet partnering and information channels," said InteriorTrade.com CEO...
Tags: B2B, Boston, Business Wire, E-business/E-commerce, INTERNET
Research articles 1999-11-17
Fairfax ties the knot with dating service RSVP.com.
Jul 11, 2005 (The Australian Financial Review - ABIX via COMTEX) John Fairfax Holdings has extended its online presence. The news and classifieds specialist believes the dating classifieds business RSVP.com.au, which it purchased for $A38.9m, will complete its stable of housing, car and...
Tags: John Fairfax Holdings Ltd.
Research articles 2005-07-11
Wanted: Ad Revenue; Groups Generate New Income Stream Via Web Site Classifieds.(Converging Media)(local broadcasters are targeting classified ads for additional revenue)
Byline: Daisy Whitney Newspapers generated $17.4 billion in classified advertising last year, and local broadcasters want a piece of that pie. Classified ads have long been the mainstay of newspapers, but with the success of Monster.com and Hotjobs.com, station groups such as...
Tags: Belo Corp., Liberty Corp.
Research articles 2003-06-02
Fred Wilson on 'The New York Times': Shut Down Business, Sports and Your Printing Press
My former Adweek colleague Brian Morrissey helpfully did a post earlier this week outlining Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson's Rx for The New York Times: to shut down all non-core competencies, such as coverage of sports and business; and to stop printing the newspaper entirely, partly as a cost-cutting measure...
Tags: Newspaper, New York Times Co., Online Advertising, Printing, Document Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Catharine P. Taylor
Blog posts 2009-06-05
What if Your Business Model Leads to Murder?
Let's say you work for Fox News, where the screamer Bill O'Reilly repeatedly pinpoints the whereabouts of one of the few doctors in the vast midwestern part of the country who provides late-term abortions, inflaming listeners by labeling this man "Dr. Killer," and then an assassin shoots the doctor down...
Tags: Facebook, Business Model, Hate-mongering, Strategy, Management, David Weir
Blog posts 2009-06-11
Some Advice for Business-Challenged eBay
Third Party Feed: Media Tech Analyst submits: eBay EBAY is scheduled to report 4Q08 earnings on Wednesday Jan. 21 and the Street is projecting revenues of $2.120bn and Adjusted EPS of $0.40. My work suggests that those numbers are achievable but 2009 Street estimates of $8.7bn and adjusted...
Tags: Internet, Media Tech Analyst, eBay Inc.
External links 2009-01-20
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